Linked by Charles Williams on Wed 16th Apr 2003 04:11 UTC
In the previous article, our computer newbie family, Mike, Diane, Mary and Carla, had decided they wanted GNU/Linux installed on the new family/business computer. Debian, via Libranet 2.0, was installed on the system, with appropriate business/office software, as well as the Gnome desktop environment. The next steps involved getting the system configured for easy use and adding various minor tweaks. Mike, Diane and the kids were not involved during the configuration phase of the system. 
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This weekend, I'm switching my father's Windows XP system to a Mandrake / IceWM system (though I'm also considering Vector)
Windows XP + ANY CREATIVE LABS PRODUCT OR ONBOARD SOUND = THE WORST.....EVER
Windows XP + ANY USB DEVICE = RANDOM REBOOTS/BSODs.
My fricken 486 33SX never had sound crackles and BSODs (on windows 3.1) from a fricken sound card, yet my father can't get through 1 mp3 without either slow down, crackling, skipping etc (my dad calls it: "It's like when the motor on a record player [whatever that is] gets warn out."
Creative labs sucks for drivers, I understand this--but WTF the sound card is an SB16--Hello, legacy drivers??
I'm hoping Linux + Mplayer + Xmms + ICEwm + Mozilla will run smoothly. I've already switched him over to OpenOffice on windows--he loves it.
The system it's going on is an Abit KT7A-Raid with Duron 1GHz, 184MB SDRAM, 30GB drive.
I've run ICEwm on a Pentium 233 and it ran quite nicely, while Gnome & KDE ran (crawled is more like it.) I prefer ICEwm anyway, it's a hell of a lot faster.
I can't imagine why the hell it's not included in RedHat or many other distros.